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(Q: I couldn't live without…) Love. It's more important than oxygen. I'm someone who believes that hearts don't beat voluntarily, they need a reason. If you lack self love or love for others you die.

— Melody Gardot

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More quotes by Melody Gardot

You’ve got to be nurturing as well as commanding and being one without the other is ineffective. Too nurturing achieves nothing and too commanding makes us feel a little cold.

The lust for comfort destroys the passion of the soul.

interview with PopMatters (2009)

The moment that you feel that you are creating for someone rather than for yourself, you lose something.

interview with PopMatters (2009)

I think that being a musician is like responding to a lover. You go where you’re most embraced.

interview with PopMatters (2009)

People always ask, “Why jazz?” and I’m like “Why not?” It’s kind of like asking Seurat, “Why so many dots?” I imagine if you asked Bjork, “Why the Tibetan bells?” She’d probably be like “That’s just what I heard.” It’s the same thing. This is just the way I see music.

interview with Interview Magazine (2009)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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